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Thread #155357   Message #3670352
Posted By: GUEST
18-Oct-14 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
"Reynardine is a case in point[ now attributed by many to be written by bert lloyd"
Reynardine appeared on 19th century broadsides and was collected in Sussex in fragmentary form in Sussex in 1904
It been found in Scotland, Canada and America.
Folk songs aren't written - they evolve into becoming folk songs
Jim Carroll